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causative
[kaw-zuh-tiv]
adjective
acting as a cause; producing (often followed byof ).
a causative agency; an event causative of war.
Grammar., noting causation. The causative form of to fall is to fell. Gothic -jan is a causative suffix in fulljan “to cause to be full; to fill.”
noun
Grammar., a word, especially a verb, noting causation, as made in He made me eat the apple.
causative
/ ˈkɔːzətɪv /
adjective
grammar relating to a form or class of verbs, such as persuade, that express causation
producing an effect
noun
the causative form or class of verbs
Other Word Forms
- causatively adverb
- causativeness noun
- causativity noun
- intercausative adjective
- noncausative adjective
- noncausatively adverb
- noncausativeness noun
- uncausative adjective
- uncausatively adverb
- uncausativeness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of causative1
Example Sentences
The study appears in Molecular Psychiatry under the title "Defective Hoxb8 microglia are causative for both chronic anxiety and pathological overgrooming in mice."
“Regardless of whether there is a causative relationship between music engagement and decreased dementia risk, listening to more music can’t be a bad thing.”
A private school was "not in any way causative" in the death of a girl who had anxiety but its use of a safeguarding system was a cause for concern, a coroner said.
“When we started these experiments, I knew we would learn more, but I honestly wasn’t convinced we would actually find the causative agent of disease.”
In April 2024, Mr Lowe was diagnosed by a consultant neurologist at the Southern Health Trust with a “painful trigeminal neuropathy” which had “the Covid vaccine as its main causative factor”.
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